Tuesday, February 13, 2018

SpaceX is building a third drone ship to land its Falcon Heavy rocket on. Two Cores of the Falcon Heavy would land on two seperate drone ships? What about the Center Core?

Elon Musk plans new SpaceX drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas

CLOSE CAPE CANAVERAL - A new SpaceX drone ship under construction will help the company handle increased launch operations and likely call the Space Coast home, CEO Elon Musk said Monday. The company's third ship, named A Shortfall of Gravitas, will join Of Course I Still Love You for East Coast booster landing operations, Musk said via Twitter in response to the USA TODAY Network.

  From article, (A new SpaceX drone ship under construction will help the company handle increased launch operations and likely call the Space Coast home, CEO Elon Musk said Monday.

The company's third ship, named A Shortfall of Gravitas, will join Of Course I Still Love You for East Coast booster landing operations, Musk said via Twitter in response to the USA TODAY Network. The latter is based at Port Canaveral and returns Falcon 9 boosters to facilities near the port for post-launch checkouts.

Musk also confirmed that for Falcon Heavy missions, the rocket's two side boosters will not always return to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station like they did during last week's premiere launch. In some cases involving tight fuel margins and heavy satellites, having two ships based on the Space Coast will mean both sail out at the same time and play host to tandem ocean landings.)

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Me, "Doesn't SpaceX need a Fourth Drone ship for the center core of the Falcon Heavy to land on?"

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